A story about grief and coping with it, with underlying themes of community (the character of the town is important to the plot) and relationships between children and adults. The framing structure of true crime/documentary combined with musical is a strange choice (one format tries really hard to convince the listener it's real while the other requires suspension of disbelief), but I got used to it the longer I listened and it allowed the narrator to take a more active role in the plot. The cast includes Patrick Page (Hadestown) - though he is unfortunately given one of the more forgettable songs IMO - and Donna Lynne Champlin (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). The first episode is the weakest, song-wise, and there's some weak lyricism here and there, but the singing/mixing is good and I did enjoy and add a few of the songs to my Musicals playlist; I liked how musical motifs were revisited.